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Das Volk posted:Shut up you Soviets! So you can go faster if your speedo uses imperial?
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Oct 29, 2012 23:15
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"Blaine"? That's not a city, that's an appliance.
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Oct 29, 2012 23:15
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Crustashio posted:Try being an engineer for a metric company using a worldwide ISO titleblock with a plant in canada. I do that poo poo all the time thanks to imperial stock being 1/4 the price of metric I got used to it pretty quickly, so it doesn't bother me, but I think maybe the UK has done a better job of using the two systems in parallel for decades, and it'd be worse if I were European or American and there was more of a disparity in their common implementation. Edit: It still irritates me that my car's display won't let me use °C if I also set it to miles. Got to be °F unless I make it kilometres. InitialDave fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Oct 29, 2012 |
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Oct 29, 2012 23:20
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Crustashio posted:Try being an engineer for a metric company using a worldwide ISO titleblock with a plant in canada. I do that poo poo all the time thanks to imperial stock being 1/4 the price of metric Engineer for a Canadian company that exports most of its systems to the states, Canada, and wherever the gently caress else a miniming company decides to set up camp. (Current project is going to Zambia... hosed if I'm doing that startup). Things wind up dimensioned every way you can imagine!
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Oct 30, 2012 02:36
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Bucephalus posted:Okay, that was unnecessary. Here's the deal Ummm? I was saying that a 1/2" torque wrench was too much for EVERY job like the person I had originally quoted said. I explained that he might want a 3/8" one that operates at a lower scale than the 1/2" could reliably reach. Then I was told that I must be thinking of 1/4" since my 3/8" ratchet surely couldn't read in inch-pounds. Can't we just hug and make up? I was trying to show him other ratchet sizes have different capabilities. I wasn't trying to set the ISO for 3/8" torque wrench readings. Also, my lovely tire store brand tools go down to 6mm in 3/8" drive.  
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Oct 30, 2012 02:53
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Yeah, I need to back away for a while...my wife gave me some disturbing news and my brain checked out. Best to just ignore me.
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Oct 30, 2012 03:09
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Speaking of Canadian Tire, I just took advantage of their 75% off Maximum impact socket/3.5A impact gun pairing. Normally it's like four hundred stupid dollars but it was only $87. I just had to go to a few of them to actually find it (totally worth it). Buce, I'm so sorry to hear that.  I hope everything starts to look up soon for you two.
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Oct 30, 2012 03:24
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TrueChaos posted:Engineer for a Canadian company that exports most of its systems to the states, Canada, and wherever the gently caress else a miniming company decides to set up camp. (Current project is going to Zambia... hosed if I'm doing that startup). Things wind up dimensioned every way you can imagine! (You're probably working on something my company is a JV partner on that no one here wants anything to do with  )
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Oct 30, 2012 03:42
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For a moment I thought I was in the tools thread.
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Oct 30, 2012 07:26
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It is, now that you're here 
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Oct 30, 2012 08:02
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InitialDave posted:Also, if you dimension a UNJF thread in millimeters you deserve a slap. Who? Who does this? But keeping with the Boeing inch thing, a friend of mine is working for an airline as a technician that use Boeing aircraft exclusively, and he has no problem with it, probably because he, like everyone else working there has gotten used to it a looong time ago.
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Oct 30, 2012 14:33
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I prefer metric for fine measuring, but imperial for long distance (mostly because the roads here in Detroit are on a grid with mile roads). I wish that inches were shown as decimals instead of fractions so it wouldn't take half a second longer to figure out what socket size is next.
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Oct 30, 2012 17:01
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Not to get off topic here but I was rotating my wheels last night on my TJ when this happened. 
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Oct 30, 2012 20:09
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There's still enough material to put on a lug nut. I broke a stud off the front passenger wheel of my car and left it like that for about 4 years before the hub had to be replaced when the bearings went out.
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Oct 30, 2012 21:13
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DixielandDelight posted:Not to get off topic here but I was rotating my wheels last night on my TJ when this happened. Why do those rotors look like that? Is that normal?
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Oct 30, 2012 21:23
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Colonel Sanders posted:Why do those rotors look like that? Is that normal? Looks like rear drums.
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Oct 30, 2012 21:29
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One of my new neighbors has been driving around with 4/5 lug nuts for a little while. When I first saw it I thought, hey, he lost or broke one of the lugs for one of his wheels, he'll fix it when he has a chance.. not like lug nuts are expensive or hard to come by. I was out walking the dog and noticed that all four wheels are like that. If it's good enough for Hondas... e: It's the flash washing out the pale beige colour. vvv Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Oct 30, 2012 |
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Oct 30, 2012 21:31
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Looks like very salty roads have taken their toll on that drum. I've never seen them rust white though 
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Oct 30, 2012 21:32
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Seat Safety Switch posted:One of my new neighbors has been driving around with 4/5 lug nuts for a little while.... Somebody stole his wheels and broke the lug with the wheel lock on it.
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Oct 30, 2012 22:07
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Sockington posted:Somebody stole his wheels and broke the lug with the wheel lock on it. Wow, you should go for Detective. I wouldn't have thought of that Now the real questin is, did someone try to steal his, or did he steal them?
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Oct 30, 2012 22:17
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DefaultPeanut posted:Got your drive sizes mixed up a bit? My 3/8" unit is identical to your 1/4", but snapon made it with a 3/8" socket piece sticking out of the head where your 1/4" one is. It looks funny. Here is the one you have: QD1200 1/4" drive, 40-200 in/lbs http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?P65=&tool=all&item_ID=640949&group_ID=675226&store=&dir=catalog Here is the one I have: QD2R200 3/8" drive,40-200 in/lbs http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?P65=&tool=all&item_ID=640950&group_ID=675226&store=&dir=catalog the tiny little 1/4 ratchet head looks funny with the 3/8" drive sticking out of it 
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Oct 30, 2012 22:19
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EightBit posted:Looks like very salty roads have taken their toll on that drum. I've never seen them rust white though I live in Texas actually and my Jeep has only seen one salt road which I doubt contributed anything to that rust. I have these wheels  and suspect when I go through water deep enough to cover the tires, water gets trapped in the "cup holders" for a while and lets the rust settle in. They're equally hosed on the front discs where the axle nut is rusted to poo poo though. And that white isn't rust it's just how the mud is here with a heavy concentration of limestone. You can see it on the coil and just about anywhere else
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Oct 30, 2012 22:35
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B4Ctom1 posted:My 3/8" unit is identical to your 1/4", but snapon made it with a 3/8" socket piece sticking out of the head where your 1/4" one is. It looks funny. Why... Why the need for a 3/8" drive with that low of a torque setting? What could you need to torque under 200 in lbs where a 1/4" drive socket set would not be big enough? The 1/4" tq wrench in your picture is way too nice and new. Mine is old. Old enough to be made in  by SnapOn
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Oct 30, 2012 23:16
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Tusen Takk posted:I wish that inches were shown as decimals instead of fractions so it wouldn't take half a second longer to figure out what socket size is next.
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Oct 30, 2012 23:17
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Ridge_Runner_5 posted:There's still enough material to put on a lug nut. I broke a stud off the front passenger wheel of my car and left it like that for about 4 years before the hub had to be replaced when the bearings went out. Wait...what? Those studs don't just pound out/in like nearly every other stud I've seen?
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Oct 30, 2012 23:35
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They sure do on jeeps, like the one posted. And there probably isn't enough stud left to put a lug nut on safely why would anyone even suggest that. Easy way to pull a new one in is to take the drum off, sneak it in the back of the flange, stack a handful of 1/2" flat washers up on it, then tighten the lug nut till it pulls into the flange. Remove a few washers at a time and retighten till it bottoms out the head of the stud on the back of the flange. Back the nut off and you're all done. Saves pulling the diff apart to remove the c-clip so you can get the axleshaft out and put it in a press. kastein fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Oct 31, 2012 |
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Oct 31, 2012 00:04
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DefaultPeanut posted:Why... Why the need for a 3/8" drive with that low of a torque setting? What could you need to torque under 200 in lbs where a 1/4" drive socket set would not be big enough? I already
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Oct 31, 2012 00:06
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Motronic posted:Wait...what? Those studs don't just pound out/in like nearly every other stud I've seen? Oh, they do. And I had the nut and the stud to replace it. Just never got around to it. Eventually the hub went out and I just replaced the whole drat thing.
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Oct 31, 2012 03:41
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Ridge_Runner_5 posted:Oh, they do. And I had the nut and the stud to replace it. Just never got around to it. Eventually the hub went out and I just replaced the whole drat thing. I'm not talking about your car or the fact that you somehow think studs break in a manner where there are enough threads to put another lug nut back on. I'm talking about the one belonging to the DixielandDelight.
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Oct 31, 2012 03:48
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Motronic posted:I'm not talking about your car or the fact that you somehow think studs break in a manner where there are enough threads to put another lug nut back on. I'm talking about the one belonging to the DixielandDelight. Studs can break like that and I've seen it a couple times but its certainly not common.
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Oct 31, 2012 03:50
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DefaultPeanut posted:Why... Why the need for a 3/8" drive with that low of a torque setting? What could you need to torque under 200 in lbs where a 1/4" drive socket set would not be big enough? The 1/4" tq wrench in your picture is way too nice and new. Mine is old. Old enough to be made in Overtightening a carb with an aluminum base plate is stupid easy and the torque specs for mine are 14-18 ftlbs. Too tight will bend the corners and cause a vacuum leak at best...at worst the corner'll break off. I've done both.
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Oct 31, 2012 03:56
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DefaultPeanut posted:Why... Why the need for a 3/8" drive with that low of a torque setting? What could you need to torque under 200 in lbs where a 1/4" drive socket set would not be big enough? The 1/4" tq wrench in your picture is way too nice and new. Mine is old. Old enough to be made in Trust me, if I would have had access to Ebay etc back in 1995 when I bought that, and ran across a cheap 1/4" I would have snapped it up. As it was, the other trans builder I learned from had one of this 3/8" type and I just asked the SnapOn guy to get me "one of the same". It really came in handy because I kept a very clean and uncluttered bench. I could just pop the same socket from the air gun (only used for teardown), then pop it onto the speed wrench (which I ran one handed), then I could pop it onto the torque wrench at the end (for proper torquing). No multiple grabs into the tool box, no extra sockets laying around, I am just a clean, efficient, and meticulous person. If I were rebuilding one of my regular common auto trans like 700R4/4L60e, AXOD/AXODe, 4L80e, E4OD I could build like 3 a day including most of the R&R. That dropped to 2 or even 1 for less common trans.
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Oct 31, 2012 17:10
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I hear ya. That would make it pretty drat convenient swapping between teardown and build not needing to have two drive sets kicking about. On a side note about transmissions, what do you know about the 4L30e?
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Oct 31, 2012 17:23
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InitialDave posted:They usually are on technical drawings. If I got a technical/engineering drawing with fractions on it I would probably die from laughter.
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Oct 31, 2012 17:41
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joat mon posted:So you can go faster if your speedo uses imperial? These are the same speeds... (?)
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Oct 31, 2012 17:52
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Tusen Takk posted:I wish that inches were shown as decimals instead of fractions so it wouldn't take half a second longer to figure out what socket size is next. How about drill sizes? As you go smaller they go from fractions, to letters, to just a number. 
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Oct 31, 2012 18:03
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So. Hurricane Sandy sent a storm surge through a storage lot in Port Newark, in which lived 16 Fisker Karmas. They caught fire and blew the gently caress up. 
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Nov 1, 2012 21:49
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I would imagine that a Fisker kills way more trees when they blow up than a normal car
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Tusen Takk posted:I would imagine that a Fisker kills way more trees when they blow up than a normal car It's ok because they'll recycle them into the dash of the next ones.
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